Trump Says Pilots Reported Round UFO Flying 3 Times an F-22's Speed

Q: Why did the U.S. military resort to using nuclear submarines as bait to track unidentified anomalous phenomena?

The U.S. military used nuclear submarines as bait because investigators believed some unexplained phenomena were repeatedly appearing around nuclear assets and strong nuclear signatures. That rationale comes from retired Defense Intelligence official Jay Stratton, who said the strategy was based on an “educated opinion” drawn from a decades-old pattern in reported incidents near nuclear missile sites, submarines and other sensitive facilities. In his account, a submarine’s reactor running hot would create a large, trackable signature in an area where officials had already logged past UAP activity, increasing the chance that an object might approach closely enough to be observed. The goal was practical rather than symbolic: to draw a UAP into range of military sensors so it could be monitored, tracked and, if possible, produce usable data. Stratton has said the mission was intended to collect information on objects that seemed able to operate in air and water and that might pose a national security concern if they were advanced foreign systems or something still unexplained. That said, this explanation rests on Stratton’s public statements and memoir, not on a confirmed Pentagon finding that UAP are in fact attracted to nuclear energy. Publicly released government records still say many sightings remain unresolved, but they do not establish extraterrestrial origin or prove the underlying theory behind the submarine tactic.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Nov 9

Trump said Air Force pilots told him a round object shot past an F-22 at three times the jet’s speed, citing Oval Office conversations aired Sunday on CBS' “60 Minutes.”
He offered no date, location or pilot identities, and said he remains “not too much of a believer” even as he called the aviators credible and their accounts “very strange.”
Trump also said he had not heard claims that a secret UFO program could operate without presidential knowledge, but pledged to find out “right after this interview” if such a program exists.
The remarks came weeks after the Pentagon’s AARO released declassified UAP records, including a 2026 law-enforcement account of a silent matte-black triangular craft that hovered over a ridge and accelerated into a canyon.